VS Peace to all beings (III 37) [[p. 72]] This is one of the variations of the formula that invariably follows every treatise, invocation or Instruction. "Peace to all beings," "Blessings on all that Lives," &c., &c.

TG Pentacle(Gr.). Any geometrical figure, especially that known as the double equilateral triangle, the six-pointed star (like the theosophical pentacle); called also Solomon's seal, and still earlier "the sign of Vishnu"; used by all the mystics, astrologers, etc.

TG Per-M-Rhu(Eg.). This name is the recognised pronunciation of the ancient title of the collection of mystical lectures, called in English The Book of the Dead. Several almost complete papyri have been found, and there are numberless extant copies of portions of the work. [W.W.W.]

TG Personality. In Occultism -- which divides man into seven principles, considering him under the three aspects of the divine, the thinking or the rational, and the animal man -- the lower quaternary or the purely astrophysical being; while by Individuality is meant the Higher Triad, considered as a Unity. Thus the Personality embraces all the characteristics and memories of one physical life, while the Individuality is the imperishable Ego which re-incarnates and clothes itself in one personality after another.

KT Personality. The teachings of Occultism divide man into three aspects -- the divine, the thinking or rational, and the irrational or animal man. For metaphysical purposes also he is considered under a septenary division, or, as it is agreed to express it in theosophy, he is composed of seven "principles," three of which constitute the Higher Triad, and the remaining four the lower Quaternary. It is in the latter that dwells the Personality which embraces all the characteristics, including memory and consciousness, of each physical life in turn. The Individuality is the Higher Ego (Manas) of the Triad considered as a Unity. In other words the Individuality is our imperishable Ego which reincarnates and clothes itself in a new Personality at every new birth.

OG Personality -- Theosophists draw a clear and sharp distinction, not of essence but of quality, between personality and individuality. Personality comes from the Latin word persona, which means a mask, through which the actor, the spiritual individuality, speaks. The personality is all the lower man: all the psychical and astral and physical impulses and thoughts and tendencies, and what not. It is the reflection in matter of the individuality; but being a material thing it can lead us downwards, although it is in essence a reflection of the highest. Freeing ourselves from the domination of the person, the mask, the veil, through which the individuality acts, then we show forth all the spiritual and so-called superhuman qualities; and this will happen in the future, in the far distant aeons of the future, when every human being shall have become a buddha, a christ. Such is the destiny of the human race.

In occultism the distinction between the personality and the immortal individuality is that drawn between the lower quaternary or four lower principles of the human constitution and the three higher principles of the constitution or higher triad. The higher triad is the individuality; the personality is the lower quaternary. The combination of these two into a unity during a lifetime on earth produces what we now call the human being. The personality comprises within its range all the characteristics and memories and impulses and karmic attributes of one physical life; whereas the individuality is the aeonic ego, imperishable and deathless for the period of a solar manvantara. It is the individuality through its ray or human astral-vital monad which reincarnates time after time and thus clothes itself in one personality after another personality.

WW Personal Person comes from a Latin word persona,a mask. On the stage the Latin actors wore big masks that covered the whole head sometimes, with enormous gaping mouths, and such a mask was called a persona.You see here why the Christian theologian speaks of the three personae or the three persons of the Trinity, because the Christian Trinity was evidently conceived of as the three masks through which the Godhead spoke, like the actor speaking his role, saying his little speeches, through the persona (the mask-persona coming from per, through,and sonare, to sound; to sound through, to speak through).The role, the character, which an actor took was hence frequently called by synecdoche his persona, his mask, and therefore, the Christians were, so far as the word went, correct enough in calling the three aspects or three characteristics, or rather the tripartite characteristics of their Godhead, as three persons; the Deity manifested or 'spoke' in three ways, three personae. From this word persona, mask, comes our word person, and you will notice with what exactitude it is used in our Theosophical terminology: our person is a mere mask through which the real actor speaks. The abstract nature of the person is personality -- all that congeries or collection of attributes which form the person, making up his personality. Of course it is logically just as wrong for one to speak of his person when he means his personality, or of his personality when he means himself as a person, as it is for him to misapply the words individual and individuality. The person bears the same relation to personality as the individual does to individuality. The person therefore is the soul, the individual is the spirit, the individuality is the nature or characteristic of the spirit, and the personality is the nature and characteristic of the soul.

TG Phallic(Gr.). Anything belonging to sexual worship; or of a sexual character externally, such as the Hindu lingham and yoni -- the emblems of the male and female generative power -- which have none of the unclean significance attributed to it by the Western mind.

KT Phallic Worship, or Sex Worship; reverence and adoration shown to those gods and goddesses which, like Siva and Durga in India, symbolise respectively the two sexes.

TG Phenomenon(Gr.). In reality "an appearance", something previously unseen, and puzzling when the cause of it is unknown. Leaving aside various kinds of phenomena, such as cosmic, electrical, chemical, etc., and holding merely to the phenomena of spiritism, let it be remembered that theosophically and esoterically every "miracle" -- from the biblical to the theumaturgic -- is simply a phenomenon, but that no phenomenon is ever a miracle, i.e., something supernatural or outside of the laws of nature, as all such are impossibilities in nature.

KT Philadelphians. Lit., "those who love their brother-man." A sect in the seventeenth century, founded by one Jane Leadly. They objected to all rites, forms, or ceremonies of the Church, and even to the Church itself, but professed to be guided in soul and spirit by an internal Deity, their own Ego or God within them.

TG Philae(Gr.). An island in Upper Egypt where a famous temple of that name was situated, the ruins of which may be seen to this day by travellers.

TG Philaletheans(Gr.). Lit., "the lovers of truth"; the name is given to the Alexandrian Neo-Platonists, also called Analogeticists and Theosophists. (See Key to Theosophy, p. 1, et seq.) The school was founded by Ammonius Saccas early in the third century, and lasted until the fifth. The greatest philosophers and sages of the day belonged to it.

KT Philalethians. (Vide "Neoplatonists.")

TG Philalethes,Eugenius. The Rosicrucian name assumed by one Thomas Vaughan, a mediaeval English Occultist and Fire Philosopher. He was a great Alchemist. [W.W.W.]

SD INDEX Philalethes, E. See Vaughan, Thomas

SD INDEX Philanthropos (Gk) Prometheus was II 526

SD INDEX Philebus. See Plato

SD INDEX Philip the Apostle, authored Pistis Sophia II 566n

SD INDEX Philistines, David brought name Jehovah fr II 541

SD INDEX Phillips, Sir R, axial changes & glaciations II 726

TG Philo Judaeus. A Hellenized Jew of Alexandria, and a very famous historian and writer; born about 30 B.C., died about 45 A.D. He ought thus to have been well acquainted with the greatest event of the 1st century of our era, and the facts about Jesus, his life, and the drama of the Crucifixion. And yet he is absolutely silent upon the subject, both in his careful enumeration of the then existing Sects and Brotherhoods in Palestine and in his accounts of the Jerusalem of his day. He was a great mystic and his works abound with metaphysics and noble ideas, while in esoteric knowledge he had no rival for several ages among the best writers. [See under "Philo Judaeus" in the Glossary of the Key to Theosophy.]

KT Philo-Judaeus. A Hellenized Jew of Alexandria, a famous historian and philosopher of the first century, born about the year 30 B.C., and died between the years 45 and 50 A.D. Philo's symbolism of the Bible is very remarkable. The animals, birds, reptiles, trees, and places mentioned in it are all, it is said, "allegories of conditions of the soul, of faculties, dispositions, or passions; the useful plants were allegories of virtues, the noxious of the affections of the unwise and so on through the mineral kingdom; through heaven, earth and stars; through fountains and rivers, fields and dwellings; through metals, substances, arms, clothes, ornaments, furniture, the body and its parts, the sexes, and our outward condition." (Dict. Christ. Biog.) All of which would strongly corroborate the idea that Philo was acquainted with the ancient Kabbala.

TG Philosopher's Stone. Called also the "Powder of Projection". It is the Magnum Opus of the Alchemists, an object to be attained by them at all costs, a substance possessing the power of transmuting the baser metals into pure gold. Mystically, however, the Philosopher's Stone symbolises the transmutation of the lower animal nature of man into the highest and divine.

KT Philosopher's Stone. A term in Alchemy; called also the Powderof Projection, a mysterious "principle" having the power of transmuting the base metals into pure gold. In Theosophy it symbolises the transmutation of the lower animal nature of man into the highest divine.

SD INDEX Philosophia ad Athenienses. See Paracelsus

SD INDEX Philosophiae Naturalie . . . See Newton, I.

SD INDEX Philosophical Magazine . . .

article by Dr Babbage I 104, 124
article by James Croll I 511
article by Sir I. Newton I 13
articles by Kroenig, Clausius, Maxwell I 513
articles by Sir Wm. Thomson I 117, 513-14

OG Philosophy -- An operation of the human spirit-mind in its endeavor to understand not merely the how of things, but the why of things -- why and how things are as they are. Philosophy is one phase of a triform method of understanding the nature of nature, of universal nature, and of its multiform and multifold workings, and philosophy cannot be separated from the other two phases (science and religion), if we wish to gain a true and complete picture of things as they are in themselves. It is a capital mistake of Western thought to suppose that science, religion, and philosophy are three separate and unrelated operations of thought. The idea when pondered upon is immediately seen to be ludicrously false, because all these three are but phases of operations of human consciousness. Not one of these three -- philosophy, religion, or science -- can be divorced from the other two, and if the attempt be made so to divorce them, the result is spiritual and intellectual dissatisfaction, and the mind senses an incompleteness. Consequently any philosophy which is unscientific and irreligious, or any religion which is unscientific and unphilosophical, and any science which is unphilosophical and unreligious, is de facto erroneous because incomplete. These three are simply three aspects or phases of a fundamental reality which is consciousness.

Philosophy is that aspect of the human consciousness which is correlative, and which seeks the bonds of union among things and exposes them, when found, as existing in the manifold and diverse forms of natural processes and the so-called laws which demonstrate their existence. (See also Religion, Science)

SD INDEX Philosophy (ies)

Advaita & Buddhist, identical I 636
analogy is key in occult I 150-1
of blind faith vs knowledge I 612
Bright Space in esoteric I 71-2 &n
common belief of ancient I 341
Egyptian same as cis-Himalayan II 374n
esoteric, reconciles many systems I 55, 77
an essential truth of occult I 77
immortality & Vedic I 36n
incorporeal entities in I 218n
Indian, six schools of I 269; II 42
occult, in Spinoza & Leibniz I 629
our, compared w ancient I 507

SD INDEX Philosophy Historical and Critical. See Lefevre

SD INDEX Philosophy of History. See Hegel, G. W. F.

SD INDEX Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences.See Whewell

SD INDEX Philosophy of the Unconscious. See Hartmann

TG Philostratus(Gr.). A biographer of Apollonius of Tyana, who described the life, travels and adventures of this sage and philosopher.

SD INDEX Philostratus

----- De vita Apollonii
feeding on serpents I 404

----- Heroica
giant skeletons II 278, 336

SD INDEX Philo-Theo-Sophia, pantheism & I 533

SD INDEX Phineata[e], Hermes worshiped at II 367

TG Phla(Gr.). A small island in the lake Tritonia, in the days of Herodotus.

TG Phlegiae(Gr.). A submerged ancient island in prehistoric days and identified by some writers with Atlantis; also a people in Thessaly.

TG Phoreg(Gr.). The name of the seventh Titan not mentioned in the cosmogony of Hesiod. The "mystery" Titan.

SD INDEX Phoreg, one of Hesiod's seven Titans I 418

TG Phorminx(Gr.). The seven-stringed lyre of Orpheus.

SD INDEX Phorminx (Gk), seven-stringed lyre II 529

TG Phoronede(Gr.). A poem of which Phoroneus is the hero; this work is no longer extant.

TG Phoroneus(Gr.). A Titan; an ancestor and generator of mankind. According to a legend of Argolis, like Prometheus he was credited with bringing fire to this earth (Pausanias). The god of a river in Peloponnesus.

akasic or astral, & pralaya I 18n
astrological influences & I 105
mystery of I 508-9

SD INDEX Photosphere, R. Hunt on I 530-1

WG Phrabat, the holy footprint of Buddha, said to be in Siam, where a temple is erected over it. It is visited by pilgrims every year. There are many alleged footprints of Buddha in India and other places.

TG Phren(Gr.). A Pythagorean term denoting what we call the Kama-Manas still overshadowed by the Buddhi-Manas.

KT Phren. A Pythagorean term denoting what we call the Kama-manas, still overshadowed by Buddhi-Manas.

SD INDEX "Phreno-Kosmo-Biology." See Lewins, Dr

SD INDEX Phrygia

fire (Kabiri) worship in II 363
priests of, described Atlantis II 371

TG Phtah (Eg.). The God of death; similar to Siva, the destroyer. In later Egyptian mythology a sun-god. It is the seat or locality of the Sun and its occult Genius or Regent in esoteric philosophy.

SD INDEX Phta. See Ptah

TG Phta-Ra(Eg.). One of the 49 mystic (occult) Fires.

SD INDEX Phylogen(esis,y) (Haeckel's term)

development of race, species II 659
laughed at by some scientists II 656
will never be exact science II 663

WW Physiology It comes from physis (physis),nature, and logos (logos),discourse; hence a discourse concerning Nature; and the Greek Physiologists (physiologos)were equivalent to what we would call natural philosophers, scientists (all knowledge was considered sacred in ancient times, a part of religion). Many of the 'physiologists' were physicians, in our modern sense, because in the early days medicine was considered a sacred science, and doubtless all physicians were priests. With the fall of so-called paganism the science of medicine gradually separated itself, and the study of Nature, science per se,became discredited and was frowned upon by the church, medicine being the only science cultivated with some degree of regularity and exactness because it was necessary to human welfare. Thus 'physiology' became restricted to its present meaning -- that of the function and matters appertaining to the physical bodies of animals and plants. But the Greek physiologists or physiologers were those who studied nature from the standpoint which we know to be the Theosophical one -- an outlook upon nature from the standpoint of divinity, if I may so put it. And all ancient theology and all ancient Theosophy was based upon physiological studies in that sense -- was based, in other words, upon what we would now call natural science of the mind, or psychology, the science of the spirit or religion, the science of the intellect per se or logic, etc.

TG Picus,John, Count of Mirandola. A celebrated Kabbalist and Alchemist, author of a treatise "on gold" and other Kabbalistic works. He defied Rome and Europe in his attempt to prove divine Christian truth in the Zohar. Born in 1463, died 1494.

TG Pillars of Hermes. Like the "pillars of Seth" (with which they are identified) they served for commemorating occult events, and various esoteric secrets symbolically engraved on them. It was a universal practice. Enoch is also said to have constructed pillars.

TG Pillars,The Two. Jachin and Boaz were placed at the entrance to the Temple of Solomon, the first on the right, the second on the left. Their symbolism is developed in the rituals of the Freemasons.

TG Pillars,The Three. When the ten Sephiroth are arranged in the Tree of Life, two vertical lines separate them into 3 Pillars, namely the Pillar of Severity, the Pillar of Mercy, and the central Pillar of Mildness. Binah, Geburah, and Hod form the first, that of Severity; Kether, Tiphereth, Jesod and Malkuth the central pillar; Chokmah, Chesed and Netzach the Pillar of Mercy. [W.W.W.]

TG Pingala(Sk.). The great Vedic authority on the Prosody and chhandas of the Vedas. Lived several centuries B.C.

WG Pingala, a particular current in the body: the right of three currents running from the os coccyx to the head, which, according to the anatomy of the Yoga system, are the chief passages of breath. (Literally, "yellowish.")

WGa Pingala, in addition to what is given it should be understood that the breath and its channels referred to are not the lungs and air passages but the inner psychic breath.

TG Pippala(Sk.). The tree of knowledge: the mystic fruit of that tree "upon which came Spirits who love Science". This is allegorical and occult.

SD INDEX Pippala (Ficus Religiosa) fruit of Tree of Life II 97-8

TG Pippalada(Sk.). A magic school wherein Atharva Veda is explained founded by an Adept of that name.

SD INDEX Piromis, Pontiffs-, of Egypt II 369

TG Pisachas(Sk.). In the Puranas, goblins or demons created by Brahma. In the southern Indian folk-lore, ghosts, demons, larvae, and vampires -- generally female -- who haunt men. Fading remnants of human beings in Kamaloka, as shells and Elementaries.

FY Pisacham, fading remnants of human beings in the state of Kama Loka; shells or elementaries.

WG Pisacha, an evil spirit or demon; an evil ghost.

SKs Pisacha Pisacha is used in different ways. Usually it is an elementary or astral shell (Kama-rupa) of an evil man who has become soulless. This shell often finds its way back to a living human body and becomes a vampire. Pisacha is also used in The Secret Doctrine in the sense of a Chhaya or the astral form of the first Races of men. In the Puranas these Pisachas are referred to as 'Devils'; but H. P. Blavatsky tells us that these devils often refer to those huge astral forms of the first Races of men. (Derivation uncertain.)

SD INDEX Pisacha (daughter of Daksha) mother of the Pisachas I 415

SD INDEX Pisachas (Skt) I 415, 571

SEE ALSO; ELEMENTARIES

SD INDEX Pisces II 656. See also Fish, Mina

constellation of Messiah I 385, 654
does not refer to Christ alone I 653
Night of Brahma & I 376; II 579n
planets conjunct in, at Jesus' birth I 654
runs throughout two Testaments I 264
southern, & beg of kali-yuga I 663
Zabulon [Zebulun], son of Jacob, or I 651

TG Pitris(Sk.). The ancestors, or creators of mankind. They are of seven classes, three of which are incorporeal, arupa, and four corporeal. In popular theology they are said to be created from Brahma's side. They are variously genealogized, but in esoteric philosophy they are as given in the Secret Doctrine. In Isis Unveiled it is said of them: "It is generally believed that the Hindu term means the spirits of our ancestors, of disembodied people, hence the argument of some Spiritualists that fakirs (and yogis) and other Eastern wonder-workers, are mediums. This is in more than one sense erroneous. The Pitris are not the ancestors of the present living men, but those of the human kind, or Adamic races; the spirits of human races, which on the great scale of descending evolution preceded our races of men, and they were physically, as well as spiritually, far superior to our modern pigmies. In Manava Dharma Shastra they are called the Lunar Ancestors." The Secret Doctrine has now explained that which was cautiously put forward in the earlier Theosophical volumes.

IU Pitris. -- It is generally believed that the Hindu term Pitris means the spirits of our direct ancestors; of disembodied people. Hence the argument of some spiritualists that fakirs, and other Eastern wonder-workers, are mediums; that they themselves confess to being unable to produce anything without the help of the Pitris, of whom they are the obedient instruments. This is in more than one sense erroneous. The Pitris are not the ancestors of the present living men, but those of the human kind or Adamic race; the spirits of human races which, on the great scale of descending evolution, preceded our races of men, and were physically, as well as spiritually, far superior to our modern pigmies. In Manava-Dharma-Sastra they are called the Lunar ancestors.

WG Pitris, fathers, lunar spirits, beings perfected (within its scope) upon the lunar chain of planets, transferred hither to lead and guide humanity. Some Indian wonderworkers claim the help of pitris.

OG Pitri(s) -- (Sanskrit) A word meaning "father." There are seven (or ten) classes of pitris. They are called "fathers" because they are more particularly the actual progenitors of our lower principles; whereas the dhyani-chohans are actually, in one most important sense, our own selves. We were born from them; we were the monads, we were the atoms, the souls, projected, sent forth, emanated, by the dhyanis. The pitris, for easy understanding, may be divided into two great groups, the solar and lunar. The lunar pitris or barhishads, as the name implies, came from the moon-chain; while the solar pitris whom we may group under the expressive name agnishvatta-pitris are those dhyan-chohans which have not the physical "creative fire," because they belong to a much superior sphere of being, but they have all the fires of the spiritual-intellectual realms active or latent within them as the case may be. In preceding manvantaras they had finished their evolution so far as the realms of astral and physical matter were concerned, and when the proper time came in the cycling ages, the agnishvatta-pitris came to the rescue of those who had only the physical creative fire, or barhishad-pitris, the lunar pitris, inspiring and enlightening these lower pitris with the spiritual and intellectual energies or "fires." In other words, the lunar pitris may briefly be said to be those consciousness-centers in the human constitution which feel humanly, which feel instinctually, and which possess the brain-mind mentality. The agnishvatta-pitris are those monadic centers of the human constitution which are of a purely spiritual type. (See also Agnishvatas, Lunar Pitris)

GH Pitrisliterally Fathers: referring to (a) the deceased father, grandfathers, and great grandfathers of a person, and (b), the Progenitors of the human race. To both classes rites are performed (Sraddhas) and oblations presented (Pindas) -- to which the text refers. The Progenitors are of seven groups or classes: the three higher classes are called Arupa-Pitris -- commonly Solar Pitris or Agnishvatta-Pitris, i.e., those who have no physical 'creative fire' albeit the enlighteners of the mind of man (the Manasaputras of The Secret Doctrine,); the four lower classes are called Barhishads -- commonly Lunar Pitris who fashion mankind's vehicle, i.e., the Monads undergoing evolution in the Lunar Chain who, transfer their energies to the Earth-chain at the time of its reimbodiment. (See Marichi.) "The Progenitors of Man, called in India 'Fathers, Pitaras or Pitris, are the creators of our bodies and lower principles. They are ourselves, as the first personalities, and we are they. . . . they were 'lunar Beings."' (Secret Doctrine, II, p. 88) (Bhagavad-Gita, W. Q. Judge, p. 68)

SKo Pitri,Kumara,Agnishwatta, Manasaputra, Barhishad The Pitris are the 'Fathers' of mankind, or the Progenitors of the various parts of the human being, inner and outer. The Solar Pitris -- the Kumaras, Agnishwattas, and Manasaputras -- are the fashioners of the higher parts of man; and the Lunar Pitris or Barhishads are the builders of the human astral form from which the physical body evolves. Kumaras, literally translated, means 'Youths'; from a compound of ku --with difficulty, and mara -- mortal, from the verbal root mri -- to die. But the Kumaras mystically interpreted refer to a class of Dhyan-Chohans. They are pure spiritual beings of a passive nature, youths of the Cosmos, who are destined to pass through all experiences in the realms of matter, hence to become 'mortal with difficulty,' in order to attain active self-conscious divinity; for "Where there is no struggle there is no merit." The Agnishwattas are those Dhyan-Chohans who have become through evolution in the realms of matter one in essence with the fire of spirit, become self-conscious spiritual beings. Agnishwatta is a compound of agni -- fire or inner essence, and swatta, the past participle-form of the verb-root swad -- to taste; hence they are those who have tasted or become one with the fire of spirit or the Buddhi-Manasic part of man. The Manasaputras are the 'Sons of Mind'; a compound of manasa -- the adjectival form of manas --mind, and putra --son. The Manasaputras are those Dhyan-Chohans whose higher Manasic principle is highly developed through the illumination of Buddhi. They belong to the Hierarchy of Compassion and their spiritual labor is to quicken the fires of mind in lesser beings. We learn from the Esoteric Commentaries that a certain class of Agnishwattas became Manasaputras by entering the undeveloped minds of the humans of the Third Root-Race of the Fourth Round, in order to awaken the latent and yet unevoked powers of mind, of egoity, of self-consciousness, and of the responsibility of choice. Thus they set the human race on that inner pathway that leads to self-conscious divinity. This act of the Manasaputras may be compared to the flame which sets alight the candle and brings forth its own powers of light-giving.

We may represent the activities of these three classes of Dhyan-Chohans -- the Kumaras, Agnishwattas, and Manasaputras, which are truly names for the same beings but in different stages of evolution -- in the following way: At the opening of a planetary Manvantara, the human monad of purely spiritual origin, as yet an un-self-conscious god, or in other words, the latent Divinity within, is the Kumara. At the end of the Planetary Manvantara this god-spark has become, through experiences in all the realms of matter, aware of its Divinity, self-consciously divine, hence an Agnishwatta. At the dawn of a new Manvantara these Agnishwattas then kindle the light of mind and understanding in lesser beings, the young humans of the new cycle, and are thus called Manasaputras. From another point of view, a man may be said to be a Kumara in his purely spiritual parts, an Agnishwatta in his Buddhi-Manasic parts, and a Manasaputra in his purely Manasic parts. The Barhishads are those Pitris or 'Fathers' who evolved the human astral form, the model of the physical body. The Barhishads became the human entities of the First Race, entities as yet not lighted by the sacred spark or Manasaputra which awakens the seed which brings forth the flower of human intellect and wisdom. The Barhishad within each man is the human soul. The perfected animal souls of this Manvantara will be the Barhishads or learning human souls of the next Manvantara. The word Barhishad is a compound of barhis, 'sacred grass' or 'fire'; and the verbal root sad -- to sit. By extension of meaning this word was philosophically applied to the builders of the human astral form, because like the Barhishads or those who attended the household-fires seated on the sacred grass, they were concerned with the building of the more material parts of man.

WG Pitri-yajna, sacrifice to the manes or pitris. (pitri,forefather; yajna,sacrifice.)

SD INDEX Pivot, manas or II 241

TG Piyadasi(Pali). "The beautiful", a title of King Chandragupta (the "Sandracottus" of the Greeks) and of Asoka the Buddhist king, his grandson. They both reigned in Central India between the fourth and third centuries B.C., called also Devanampiya, "the beloved of the gods".